Driving device for quilling, spinning, and other textile machinery.



No. 868,982 PATENTED 001.222.1907. W. GREGORY.

DRIVING DEVICE FOR QUILLING, SPINNING, AND OTHER TEXTILE, MACHINERY.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM GREGORY, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN H. BENTLEY, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

DRIVING DEVICE FOR QUILLING, SPINNING, 'AND OTHER TEXTILE MACHINERY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 22, 1907.

Application filed June 15,1906. Serial No. 321,846.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM GREGORY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Driving Devices for Quilling, Spinning, and other Textile Machinery, of which the following is a specification, reference be-- ing had therein to the accompanying drawing.

The object of my invention is to provide a band driven spindle with a swivel-bearing and means for adjusting the same, which will be applicable to quilling, spinning and other textile machinery, which normally holds the band taut when the machine is in operation; which may be tripped so as to fall from its normal position and cause the band to be slackened and thereby stop the revolution of the spindle when necessary and which may with facility be returned to its normal position.

A further object of my invention is to prolong the life of the bands, facilitate the substitution of quills and permit the spindles to be manipulated independently of each other while the machine isin operation.

The invention consists of a spindle revolubly mounted in a swivel bearing and adapted to be thrown into or out of its normal or operative position with ease and alacrity to respectively tighten the band and revolve the spindle or to slacken the band and stop the revolution of the spindle.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings which shows a portion of a machine embodying the same and in which I Figure 1 is a cross-section through machine frame to show one spindle with its hand and driving pulley and means for holding the spindle in its normal position and releasing it therefrom; the solid lines indicating the normal position of spindle when in operation and the dotted lines the position of the band and spindle when the spindle has been tripped and has dropped from its normal position slackening the band and ceasing to revolve; Fig. 2 is a plan view of same; Fig. 3 a front view, and Fig. 4 a section of the end swivel-bearing for spindle, on the line A A, in Fig. l.

The quill is held on the end lof thespindle -l which is pivotally mounted in the rear end swivel bearing 2- in the hub of which the cylindrical sleeve 3 is mounted having an opening 3 into which the spindle end enters and revolves.

The outer end of the spindle 1 passes through a sleeve -6- pivoted on the fulcrum,7 in the upper part of the arm 5- which is slidably secured to the frame 4 by the bolts 9 that pass through the frame 4 and elongated slots or openings in the arm 5 To the lower portion of the arm 5 is secured a pin or handle 10 which is adapted to be engaged and held by the hook-shaped opening 18 in the swinging arm 11 011 the pivot 13.

When the swinging-arm 11 is disengaged from the handle -10- the spindle -1 is released and drops down in the opening 12 in the frame 4, the band 17 becomes slackened and the spindle ceases to revolve. The quill may then be removed and another placed on the spindle l-, when the spindle is simply raised up and the handle 10 is again engaged by the hook -18* in the swinging-arm 11, the band -17 is again tightened around the pulleys 14 and 15 and the spindle again revolves. The bands l7 are driven from the pulleys -15- on the main driving shaft l6-.

It is obvious that my invention very materially lessens the wear and tear on the bands, a matter of considerable moment, that the spindles may be supplied with quills when not revolving and without interfering with the operation of the other spindles.

With this description of my invention, what I claim is:

1. The combination with a swinging banddriven spindle, of :1 sleeve through which the outer end of the spindle passes, a slidable, slotted support to which said sleeve is pivotally secured, a frame to which said support is slidably secured, and a swinginghook secured to said frame and adapted to be engaged with and disengaged from said slidable support, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with a swinging band-driven spin dle, of a swivel bearing in which it is revolubly mounted, and means for driving said spindle, of a sleeve through which the outer end of the spindle passes, a slidahle, slotted support to which said sleeve is pivotally secured, a frame to which said support is slidably secured, and a swinging hook adapted to be engaged with and disengaged from said slidable support, substantially as set forth.

ln testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

\VILLIAM GREGORY.

Witnesses Many A. REID,

ELIZABETH G. BRUEL. 

